I thought it might add very modestly the debate about teaching Virgil in
translation if I recounted something that has happened to me in the last few
days.
I am a professional ecologist, not a Classics scholar or a teacher, and I
read Virgil, both in Latin and in translation simply because I enjoy
Patrick Roper wrote (inter alia, in a long and interesting post):
>The first line I read was "Nox erat et terris animalia somnus
>habebant," strikingly similar to my earlier experience and the way I had
>expressed it (only much better).
>
>As far as I am aware, I was not familiar with this line, t
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Cauchi
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because the phrase
exactly conveys the feeling of a poetic nightpiece---which, by the way, I'm
sure must be a form antedating Virgil, but I can't cite examples.
Try Apollonius Rhodius 3. 744-50 (setting up the contrast with
Ita est, ut ais, doctissime Leofranc Holford-Strevens, sed Apollonius cum Vergilio Aen. IV, 522-529 (in versu 525 legitur : siluaeque et saeua quierant aequora, quod plane ad illud « sleeping earth » spectat ) comparandus est. Et certe Apollonii fons Alcman est (fr. 89 P = 58 D). Credo e
A comment on Patrick Roper's brief and moving reflection: I first read
Virgil almost 50 years ago, and only recently did I realize that I've also
experienced something close to what he describes-- lines that I enjoy in a
manner similar to the most simple enjoyment of nature.
His mention of Hofstad
